Monday Portrait
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Tag: Wandbild
“Curses!!! We are not going on a cruise!”
A cruse is an old word for an earthenware pot or jar. In the Book of Kings in the Old Testament is the story of a widow who’s cruse of oil never runs try.
I found this mural on the side of a house in Koblenz. This is what it looked with the house attached, so to speak:
What’s Up, Doc?
After the delightful half hour spent in the company of Frankie Howerd in Pompeii thanks to Debbie I looked around and found so many movie titles with UP in it, I could fill two months of squares with them. I’ll start with the character who had UP in his signature quote and shoot a quick glance over to Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neil and Peter Bogdanovich: What’s Up, Doc?
Modern times
“Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.”
Salvador Dali
Linked to Travel with Intent where more posts inspired by the Dali quote can be found.
Nations in Peace
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
Thomas Huxley
This mural was conceived and transferred to the highrise building by the internationally acclaimed Bahaider. He based it on working with students from this area in Mannheim, who expressed their different ethnic and cultural heritage in drawings. He wanted to remind us that living together peacefully doesn’t happen intuitively but needs mutual respect and tolerance, in a neighbourhood where people with backgrounds of more than 127 nations live. The piece is called Nationen in Frieden (Nations in Peace).
Linked to Travel with Intent. For more photos inspired by the quote from Thomas Huxley, click here.
Gray – mural
Linked to Color your World. For more photos with the shade gray, click here.
Dates
The water level marked on an old house from a flooding in 1875.
A mural created by a school class in 2015.
A keystone with the year 1743 marked out.
The (most likely) dates of birth and death of Johannes Bückler, better known as Schinderhannes, painted on a house in the area where he used to live as an outlaw and robber. There are many legends (and five movies) about the man, making him into a more modern German version of Robin Hood which are in all probability not true.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything with numbers on it. More numbered photos can be found here.
Paint running lines
Linked to Lines&Squares: #4 in October.
The sign of the times
I don’t know what was better – the individual attention to each garment (for those that could afford it) or our mass produced wares (but available for the masses). In any case, a lot of our fashion of yesterday ends up here:
It is probably the better option compared to simply throwing used clothes and shoes in the garbage although there are issues with this kind of recycling, too. If I can I rather pass on my no longer used fashion items to an organisation where I know they will be worn in Germany and don’t end up destroying indigenous industries in third world countries. Or I wear them until they fall apart and end up as cleaning rags.
This is linked to One Word Sunday: fashion.
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